Original Research
The use of isiXhosa children’s poetry as a tool to integrate literacy, mathematics and life skills in Foundation Phase: Grade R-3
South African Journal of Childhood Education | Vol 7, No 1 | a530 |
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4102/sajce.v7i1.530
| © 2017 Nozuko Gxekwa, Nomsa Satyo
| This work is licensed under CC Attribution 4.0
Submitted: 09 March 2017 | Published: 14 December 2017
Submitted: 09 March 2017 | Published: 14 December 2017
About the author(s)
Nozuko Gxekwa, Department of African Languages, University of Fort Hare, South AfricaNomsa Satyo, Department of African Languages, University of Fort Hare, South Africa
Abstract
Literature helps us understand and make sense of the world around us. It is a part of education, which broadens one’s mind about how to understand, transfer knowledge and provide meaningful and authentic learning. Thus, this article aims to highlight how some elements of isiXhosa children’s poetry can be used to help pre-service teachers to teach and integrate mathematics and life skills with literacy in Foundation Phase (FP). This approach of using poems for integration strengthens concepts and skills in more than one subject area. The theoretical framework that informed the article is integrative learning. The data in this article were generated through non-participant classroom observations and non-structured interviews with the participants of the study and the researchers adopted the interpretative phenomenological analysis method for data analysis. This article was prompted by findings of lack of understanding of integrative teaching and learning and lack of teaching resources in isiXhosa to enhance integrative teaching and learning in FP intervention undertaken with 25 first year isiXhosa-speaking FP students.
Keywords
Integrative teaching and learning; real world applications; teaching resources; Foundation Phase (FP); children’s poetry; meaningful an authentic learning
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